Heading into SummerSlam last week, I talked about how the show was loaded on paper.Obviously the event did not live up to my expectations, and here are some of my thoughts on the event.First off, the main event between Brock Lesnar and Randy Orton.I received countless emails, texts, and calls ...
The pro football season is here.The 2016 NFL season kicks off with the defending Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos hosting the Carolina Panthers at Mile High Stadium.The Pittsburgh Steelers open their season in a Monday night game in Washington on Sept. 12.I took a football trip on Aug. 15-17 ...
Here, deep in Pennsylvania鈥檚 southwest corner, we encounter the phrase 鈥淭hree Rivers鈥� often. Of the three rivers referred to, we鈥檙e most familiar with the Monongahela. And if you鈥檝e ever flown out of Pittsburgh International, blessed with clear weather and a window seat, you gaped at ...
Friday night, the biggest sports rivalry in the Mon Valley is renewed for the first time since Aug. 31, 2007, when Monessen hosts Charleroi at Memorial Stadium in the football season opener for both.Monessen won the last match-up, 28-17.The layoff will end at eight years, 11 months, and 26 ...
The Games of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, are over, and I am sad.The Olympics were outstanding. One exciting day after another. From the soccer games that were contested before the Summer Games officially opened on Aug. 5, to the closing ceremony Sunday night, I was mesmerized.I ...
From the notebook of a sportswriter who鈥檚 just going by what he鈥檚 seen and heard to tell you what I know about ...- <strong>Ladarius Green.</strong>There鈥檚 been so much back and forth written about him that no one, I鈥檓 sure, knows what to believe. But I will ...
